Nidaa Khoury was born in the Galilee village of Fasuta. She is the author of seven poetry collections published in Arabic in Israel, Lebanon and Egypt, including I Announce My Silence To You (1987), Rings of Salt (1998) and The Most Beautiful Goddess is Crying (2000).

Her daring feminist voice and existential poetry place her in an outstanding position in Arabic poetics. She has been translated into many languages and her book The Burning Voice (2005) is translated into Hebrew and English.

Khoury studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa and Cultural and Behavioural Science at the University of Latvia. Her book Post Monotheism is published this year.

Khoury served as Women's leadership co-ordinator and trainer, and as an instructor of teachers for the Ministry of Education, Israel. She is currently the project co-ordinator of the Arab follow up committee and teaches at the Ben Gurion University.